FBI: More People Killed with Hands, Fists, than Rifles in 2019

The FBI’s Uniform Crime Report (UCR) for 2019 shows nearly twice as many people were killed with “personal weapons” like hands and fists than were killed with rifles of any kind.

The UCR shows 364 were killed with rifles in 2019, while another 600 were beaten to death with hands, fists, feet, etc.

Moreover, the UCR shows more people were killed with hammers and clubs than were killed with rifles of any kind.

On October 8, 2020, Breitbart News reported UCR figures showed over four times as many people were stabbed to death in 2019 than were killed with rifles of any kind.

It is crucial to understand the category of “rifles” includes bolt action rifles and lever action rifles, as well as rifles with breech action, pump action, and semiautomatics designed specifically for big game hunting.

Then there are the AR-15 platform rifles, which are now common in hunting as well as sport shooting, and there are rifles on AK-47 platforms, as well as the always popular Ruger Mini-14 and numerous other semiautomatics which the left wants to ban.

But even when all those various rifle types are combined under the simply heading of “rifles,” the UCR shows nearly twice as many people were beaten to death than were killed with rifles and over four times as many people were stabbed to death in 2019 than were killed with rifles of any kind.


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ATF Reversal Could Turn Millions of Gun Owners into Felons

NRA calls on Trump to rein in 'rogue' regulators

In a letter made public on Tuesday, the agency informed a New Hampshire gun company that its AR-15 pistol model equipped with a specialized brace is actually an illegal short-barreled rifle and anyone who owns one could be subject to up to 10 years in prison or $100,000 in fines. Industry insiders put the number of AR-15 pistols equipped with similar specialized braces at about 3 million.

The decision appears to conflict with several similar determinations made by the ATF dating back to 2012, when the agency told Sig Sauer that the braces, designed to strap to a shooter's forearm instead of being pressed against their shoulder, could be legally combined with guns that have barrels shorter than the 16-inch federal limit for rifles. The new letter calls into question the basic legality of the devices and leaves gun owners in flux just three weeks before the presidential election.

Carolyn Gwathmey, the public affairs officer for the ATF, said the letter only directly applies to the New Hampshire gun company's pistol, but neither she nor the letter offered an explanation for why that model differs from other weapons equipped with the braces. She said the agency would not offer a standard of review of the devices as a whole, but only on a case-by-case basis...

... Gun-rights groups are pressuring the administration to rein in the ATF.

The National Rifle Association attacked the agency's move as "arbitrary, inequitable, and incorrect." The group said it was also in contact with DOJ and Trump administration officials and trying to work through how the change could be made. Amy Hunter, a spokeswoman for the NRA, told the Free Beacon the group is "exhausting all options to overturn this unjust and rogue action by ATF."..

... Mark Oliva of the National Shooting Sports Foundation, the firearms industry's trade group, told the Free Beacon he was concerned the decision wasn't "fairly and objectively applied." He said the group, which often works with the ATF on regulatory issues, has been talking to the agency—as well as the White House—about the potential reversal.

"This is inconsistent with the standards that they've put forth before," Oliva said. "So, we're trying to understand why this inconsistency is there and come to a resolution on it."

The Firearms Policy Coalition went further and threatened to sue over the ATF's letter, saying it "embodies the very essence of ‘arbitrary and capricious.'"